INTL 1101 Chapter Notes -Oligarchy, Comity, Meritocracy
11 Feb 2014
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Two possible political futures: retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war bloodshed, globalization causes nations into one commercially homogenous global network; the planet is falling precipitately apart and coming reluctantly together at the very same moment. Both the jihad, driven by parochial hatreds, and the mcworld, driven by universalizing markets, offers much hope in looking for practical ways to govern themselves democratically. This forces greater cooperation and interdepended to acquire the resources necessary to function. Information-technology imperative: enlightenment science and the technologies derived from it are inherently universalizing; this technology allows for increased commerce and communication never possible before, ecological imperative, foreign cars can destroy domestic environments. By shrinking the world, these imperatives have achieved victory over factiousness, particularism, and nationalism. Neither mcworld nor jihad is remotely democratic in impulse. Jihad delivers a local identity, sense of community, and parochialism grounded in exclusion.
